Troy Church is a Senior Experience Designer at Adobe in Seattle, WA. During the conversation, we discussed how the design community can be involved in improving Adobe products, the future of After Effects, and Troy’s role at Adobe.
Links:
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/ (AE team blog)
http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html (Submit bugs and feature requests for any Adobe Product)
https://forums.adobe.com/community/aftereffects_general_discussion (After Effects User-to-User Forum )
http://www.troychurch.com/
https://twitter.com/tchurch  
 
Highlights:
-Role at Adobe
-Working on a small team
-Creative cloud business model
-Been at Adobe for 10 years
-Future of animation
-We interact with our users all the time
-Huge databases of what people think
-Trip reports
-How can users be a part of helping the product
-Forums
-Submit bugs
-iPad pro
-Flash changes
-Google's use of animation
-Dream client/product/After Effects: a good story
-Favorite animated film: the incredibles
-What do the people you love think you do: Saturday morning cartoons
-Animalator: a horse